Re: Cygwin: problem with renaming and case

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> So I agree, in this case the "remove files that go away first" would work 
> around the problem, and we could look into whether that is reasonable in 
> some cases, but in general it's not trivial either.

I think we have two phase "remove then create" in git-apply for an
entirely different reason (we do check before doing any removal or
creation).

> My personal guess is that it's probably better to start teaching git about 
> case-broken filesystem, even if we start it with some common special case 
> rather than getting every case right from the beginning.

Hmm.  I have to say I am not very enthused by the prospect, as I agree
with your reasoning in your earlier message why this has been lower
priority ("sane people when forced to use case corrupting systems avoid
problematic paths to make this a non-issue anyway").  My feeling is that
this falls into the "when we are bored to death and have absolutely
nothing better to do" category.